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Originally Posted by Big Dave
Now basjoos drives around a car that is still a four-seater (no, you are not gonna stuff me in his back seat) and has actually enhanced his stuff-carrying space. Get the EPA to back off on the Tier II nonsense and put a good efficient diesel in the basjoos-mobile and you can scare 100 MPG.
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As we have seen from VW, Tier II only costs ~$500-1000 more per vehicle so that isn't a make or break proposition. The average driver at ~15k miles/year would make that up in ~1-2 years. The largest obstacle to a large automaker building a 100mpg compact diesel is the aero/transmission accommodations people would have to live with. For most, not having a different looking car with a manual transmission (or a wonky CVT in the case of the 3L Lupo) is worth the extra ~$600/year they would pay in gas compared to something like a stock Civic. People like vehicles they're used to, and a basjoos-mobile isn't something they're used to.